10 Years Old and 1.2 Billion Sold: The Business of iPhone
Before the iPhone landed like a meteorite in 2007, it wasn’t clear that a revolution in mobile phones was coming or even necessary, says Benedict Evans, partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Back in 2006, it...
View ArticleOpening Doors and Disrupting Labs: Two Women Entrepreneurs Expand Education
It takes both vision and commitment to see that expanding educational opportunities today will make a better future and then to create a company to do just that. Calico Chief Computing Officer and...
View ArticleFrom Sailboats to Startups: Diane Greene’s Silicon Valley
Diane Greene says her favorite experience ever was when, as a young woman, she windsurfed 15 miles from Molakai to Maui . . . alone. That confidence in her abilities and comfort with taking risks has...
View ArticleMaking Trouble: Leslie Berlin Explores the People Who Built Silicon Valley
One of Silicon Valley’s great advantages, says author Leslie Berlin, is how accessible experienced founders and legendary CEOs are to the next generation of entrepreneurs. Steve Jobs counted David...
View ArticleNot Just for Calling Anymore: The Social Impact of the iPhone Revolution
It will ruin your eyes, turn your brain to mush, and kids will see things they shouldn’t. The content is all just designed to sell stuff. It will destroy relationships—people won’t interact with family...
View ArticleSilicon Valley: The Heart of the Untold Story
Silicon Valley: The Untold Story, a new three-part documentary from award-winning Kikim Media airing on Discovery’s Science Channel in March 2018, reveals what has made Silicon Valley a hotbed of...
View Article#WeToo: Insights from Silicon Valley Women in Tech
In 1962, Evelyn Berezin designed a reservation system for United Airlines that served 60 cities throughout the United States with a one-second response time. It had no central system failures in 11...
View ArticleTask Rabbits and Thunder Lizards: A Founder and Funder Story
When a founder’s vision sparks a funder’s interest, an idea can become an enterprise with the potential to reimagine the whole idea of community. That’s what happened when TaskRabbit founder Leah...
View ArticleInvested in China: Venture Capitalists on Growing Chinese Tech Companies
Remember when “Made in China” was synonymous with a cheap toy or electronic knockoff? Those days are long over. Chinese tech firms, once seen as quaint or copycats, can now count Alibaba, Tencent, and...
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